In English We talk with Wouter Verhelst, developer of the Debian project. Debian is a popular GNU/Linux distribution that is available for many different architectures. It is also used as the basis of many other distributions.
We also talk about the development cycle of debian. The last debian release took three years and was released in june 2005. The next version called Etch is projected to be released in december 2006.
In english We talk with Daniel Seuffert about BSD. Several flavours of bsd were represented in a joint BSD booth: openbsd, freebsd, netbsd and miros. Daniel is representative of the FreeBSD project and among other things talks about the different operating systems that are build on top of freebsd. For instance, there are two distributions called pcbsd and desktopbsd that are targetted towards desktop users. There also is a version that specializes on security entitled trustedbsd.
For people who want to try out BSD, there is live cd based on freebsd called FreeSBIE.
In English We talk with David Axmark of Mysql AB. Mysql is the mostly used open source database. David talks about the database market and the recents acquisitions of Oracle in this field. David also addresses the qualities of the mysql database and the status of his company.
In English A new interview in our Fosdem 06 series. We talked (~10min) with Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe. Throughout the interview Tristan emphasizes the importance of choice and innovation on the internet.
Topics include: the different Mozilla products, the influence Mozilla has had on IE7, the importance of the support for extentions, the incorporation into the Mozilla Corporation and the power of the platform independant Mozilla user interface language XUL which is now also used by other projects as well, for instance democracy.
In English In this interview we talk with Richard Stallman, the keynote speaker at Fosdem 2006. Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project.
We talk briefly about the drafting process of the upcoming version of the GNU GPL (reports of GPL-v3 related events). Then Richard talks about a whole range of issues that are very much relevant to free and open source software and user freedom in general, namely Digital Rights/Restrictions Management, CRAP, software patents, and HDTV.
For further information: The GNU project website has extensive background information about the philosophy behind free software. It also has an archive with audio and video material, which can be accessed through audio-video.gnu.org. The transscript and links to the video of a keynote by Richard Stallman in Turin on March 18 of this year about the future of free software can be found here. Notes of a lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra in October 2004 can be found here. An interesting keynote by Eben Moglen, the lawyer of the FSF, at the Wizards of OS on June 10 2004 can be found here. The FSF website has an overview of current campaigns. And finally, Sam Williams wrote a publicly available book about Richard Stallman, which is a nice read.
Update @ 15 May 10:14 | At the request of Richard Stallman, this interview has been republished under the following license: “Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved.”.
In dit interview (~16min) spreken we met Jeroen Baten. Jeroen is op tal van manieren bezig met open source. Hij heeft veel geschreven over dit onderwerp, waaronder cursusmateriaal voor het Linux Professional Institute en een boek over open source bij de overheid. Ook is hij actief binnen de Open Source Business Club (OSBC) en Vereniging Open Source Nederland (VOSN).
Jeroen geeft inzicht in doelstellingen en activiteiten van deze laatste twee verenigingen. Ook geeft hij ruime toelichting op waarom de VOSN opgaat in Holland Open. Ook gaan we in op de markt en de bedrijfsmodellen rond open source, een thema waar Holland Open binnenkort een avond aan wijdt.
Update @ 01 Juni 08:15 | English subtitles for this interview have been created by Bas de Lange. Thanks! I know nothing about subtitle formats, but for now we have settled on the subrip format which seems to be supported by mplayer and vlc. For example, download the subtitle file to your computer and use mplayer -sub syllable_-_kay_de_vos.srt http://www.source21.nl/media/20060330/syllable_-_kay_de_vos.ogg. Let us know if there are any problems: info [at] source21.nl.
NL | Op Fosdem spraken we (~13min) met Kaj de Vos. Kaj is ontwikkelaar van het Syllable besturingssysteem. Dit besturingsysteem is een voortzetting van Atheos en het is vrij beschikbaar onder de GNU GPL.
EN | At Fosdem we talked (~13min) with Kaj de Vos. Kaj is developers of the Syllable operating system. This system is a successor of Atheos and it is freely available under the GNU GPL.
NL | In dit interview licht Kaj de specifieke eigenschappen van Syllable toe. Het is een grafisch besturingssysteem met een eigen architectuur. Doordat Syllable als integraal systeem wordt ontwikkeld is er veel aandacht voor een goede integratie tussen de verschillende componenten. Een uitdaging is vooral het porten van grafische free en open source applicaties zoals OpenOffice.org naar Syllable.
EN | In this interview Kaj highlights the characteristics of Syllable. It is a graphical operating system with its own architecture. Because Syllable is developed a an integral system these is a lot of attention to the integration between various system components. One challenge is to port graphical free and open source software applications like OpenOffice.org over to Syllable.
NL | Syllable kan hier worden gekocht of gedownload. Er is een Live CD en diverse emulatie versies. Erg leuk.
EN | Syllable is available here and can be bought or downloaded. There is a Live CD and several emulation versions. Very interesting.
In English. We spreken met Jeff Waugh van de Gnome desktop in het kader van de nieuwe 2.14 release. Jeff is emeritus release manager van het project en tevens verbonden aan de Ubuntu distributie.
We spreken kort over Linus Torvalds en zijn veelbesproken opmerkingen over de Human Interface Guidelines van Gnome. Ook spreken we over GDesklets, Mono en de concurrentie van Microsoft Vista.
Voor meer informatie over 2.14, zie een preview, en reviews van Tweakers, Livre en OpenSource Nieuws Nederland.
Update @ 25 march 16:13 | Thanks to François Kooman an Ogg Theora version is available here.
In English. In dit interview spreken we met Zbigniew Braniecki. Hij is lid van de board of directors van Mozilla Europe en ontwikkelaar van Flock. In dit interview (~10min) spreken we over de ambities van het jonge Flock project. Een belangrijk doel is een naadloze integratie met webdiensten zoals Flickr, blogger, del.icio.us.
Zbigniew is bescheiden over de huidige status van het project en wil geen valse verwachtingen wekken. Het project biedt op dit moment een developer preview en gewone stervelingen worden gevraagd te wachten tot versie 1.0.
Update @ 25 march 16:10 | Thanks to François Kooman an ogg Theora version is available here.
